The Shenoa Report
February 9th, 2025
Super Bowl LIX
This is the Super Bowl edition of The Shenoa Report but first I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BFF!!!!! She is so nice in sharing her birthday with the Super Bowl. Cheers to you Jamie! May you have the bestest day! Also, Jamie’s brother is a huge KC Chiefs fan so I hope he has a good day too. The player who wears 26 on the Eagles also shares a birthday with my BFF. I hope his team loses.
In non Super Bowl news I have to give props to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. This rarely happens. It may actually be my first time. But this is important. You see, the POTUS, by executive order, has removed all DEI from the government and major corporations are following suit. The POTUS is an awful, racist, hateful, vile, disgusting creature. If you are unaware, DEI stands for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. It makes sense that 47 would not be able to relate to those three words following the accolades I just gave him. Goodell said, "We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League, and we're going to continue those efforts because we've not only convinced ourselves, I think we've proven to ourselves that it does make the NFL better. We're not in this because it's a trend to get into it or a trend to get out of it. Our efforts are fundamental in trying to attract the best possible talent into the National Football League both on and off the field."
The NFL 2025 Hall of Fame draft class was announced and the NFL Honors were awarded on Thursday. I’m a little salty about it. Eli Manning was not a first round ballot Hall of Famer nor was Adam Vinatari. Not cool. Here is the list of awards and recipients. AP Most Valuable Player: Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills quarterback
AP Offensive Player of the Year: Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles running back
AP Offensive Rookie of the Year: Jayden Daniels, Washington Commanders quarterback
AP Defensive Player of the Year: Patrick Surtain II, Denver Broncos cornerback
AP Defensive Rookie of the Year: Jared Verse, Los Angeles Rams outside linebacker
AP Comeback Player of the Year: Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback
AP Coach of the Year: Kevin O’Connell, Minnesota Vikings head coach
AP Assistant Coach of the Year: Ben Johnson, Detroit Lions offensive coordinator
Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award winner: Josh Allen
FedEx Air & Ground Players of the Year: Josh Allen and Ja’Marr Chase, Bengals wide receiver
Next Gen Stats Moment of the Year powered by AWS: Daniels’ Hail Mary pass in Week 8
Salute to Service Award presented by USAA: George Kittle, San Francisco 49ers tight end
Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year: Arik Armstead, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman
2025 HOF draft class: Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Antonio Gates, and Sterling Sharpe (senior).
Well, here we are. Super Bowl 59. The Philadelphia Eagles will face off against the Kansas City Chiefs for the second time in two years. Someone will win and someone will lose. The confetti will fall and then once again we’ll have to wait until August when preseason starts up again. Ugh.
I’m not gonna lie guys, I’m not excited about this game. I wanted it to be a Lions vs Bills Super Bowl. I’ll watch it, but I’m already disappointed.
So, how did we get here? Let’s recap another weekend of football a lot of fans would like to forget about, me included.
Commanders @ Eagles 23-55
Unless you are an Eagles fan, this game was unwatchable. It was horrible. It was awful. It was a beating of momentous proportions. Definitely not fun to watch and even less fun to write about and relive. The score says it all. The Eagles crushed the Commanders. The 55 points are the most any team has scored in a conference championship game since the 1970 merger. I get that they wanted to set a record for most points scored, but it was tasteless and not good sportsmanship in my opinion. But I’m super biassed, I don’t like the Eagles and now they are going to the Super Bowl.
Bills @ Chiefs 29-32
I’m sick of the refs and “New York’s” inability to weigh in when needed. Sure, the Bills didn’t play their best game. They had turnovers. It was sloppy. But, I do think the refs had a hand in helping the Chiefs win this game. Two plays in particular come into mind. And, yes, I know, two plays don’t determine the outcome of a game, but if the jerseys were flipped, would the plays have been called or reversed? I guess we’ll never know. The first of two questionable plays was late in the 4th quarter with the Bills up by 1 point on a fourth and inches. (Don’t even get me started on the play before this when Dalton Kincaid had the first down but Sean McDermott didn’t challenge the call.) Josh Allen took the snap and launched himself across the line to gain, and it looked like he definitely got the first down. Gene Steratore, a rules analyst for CBS Sports, believed he got the 1st, Tony Romo, commentator of the game, believed he got the 1st, Jim Nantz, the other commentator, believed he got the 1st, the ref that Allen was facing had the ball lined up as a 1st, Dean Blandino, NFL rules analyst, also believes he got the 1st. EVERYONE WITH EYES THOUGHT HE GOT THE 1ST DOWN. But the refs changed their mind. Turnover on downs. Chiefs ball. The Chiefs went down and scored, taking the lead. The Bills got the ball back and on another fourth down Josh Allen, thinking he had a free play, Jim Nantz even called a flag down, launched the ball but Dalton Kincaid was unable to catch it downfield. And then the flag just disappeared. Like it never happened. Bills lose. Heart broken.
NFL officials have been criticized for much of the season for what some perceive to be favoritism of the Chiefs. So much so, the NFL Referees Association executive director Scott Green released a statement after this game saying, "It is insulting and preposterous to hear conspiracy theories that somehow 17 officiating crews consisting of 138 officials are colluding to assist one team." NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended the league’s officials during his annual Super Bowl press conference, calling it “a ridiculous theory.” One reddit user made this point saying, “‘Guys it isn't a conspiracy theory, we’re just awful at our jobs’ is an interesting position for a worker’s union to take.” This system is broken and needs to be fixed. Crazy thing is, the NFL has had the technology since 2017 when Next Gen Stats were introduced. A tracking system is installed in every NFL venue which is composed of: 20–30 ultra-wide band receivers. 2–3 radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags installed into the players’ shoulder pads as well as RFID tags on officials, pylons, sticks, chains, and in the ball. Why the NFL isn’t using this technology to see if Josh Allen did in fact have the first down is beyond me.
February 9, 2025 - Super Bowl Sunday
How to watch Super Bowl LIX
Well, coverage has already started but the actual game kicks off at 6:40 p.m. ET. This year's game will be played at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Fox will be hosting the game and you can also stream the game to mobile devices on NFL+ as well as Tubi.
The head referee is Ron Torbert. TV announcers are Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play), Tom Brady (analyst), Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi (sidelines), and Mike Pereira (rules analyst).
The cost of a 30 second commercial is $7.5-8 million.
The game will be a rematch of Super Bowl LVII, played two years earlier, in which the Chiefs defeated the Eagles, 38–35.
The Chiefs are looking for a “threepeat” They’ve won the last two…
The Eagles are the designated home team this year, based on the annual rotation between the two conferences, they are choosing to wear their midnight green home jerseys with white pants. The Chiefs will wear their white away jerseys with red pants.
Fun facts:
Andy Reid is the winningest head coach in both Philadelphia and Kansas City's team history, having previously coached the Eagles from 1999 to 2012. With the Eagles, Reid held a 130–93–1 (.583) record with one NFC Championship. Entering Super Bowl LIX, Reid has a 143–53 (.730) record, five AFC Championships, and three Super Bowl victories with the Chiefs, serving as head coach since the 2013 season.
This game has been referred to as "The Swifty Bowl", because Taylor Swift will be in attendance, again cheering on her boyfriend Travis Kelce.
Also, this will be the second Super Bowl between two Black starting quarterbacks: Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs and Jalen Hurts of the Eagles.
The Pregame performers include Jon Batiste who will be performing the national anthem. Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle will perform "America the Beautiful," and Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Stephanie Nogueras and Otis Jones IV will provide sign language.
The headliner for the Halftime show is Kendrick Lamar. SZA will be a guest in the show.
A lot of people have asked who I’ll be rooting for in this game, or if I’ll even be watching it at all. As much as I vocalized my disdain for the refs and the heartbreaking loss of the Bills two weeks ago, I have decided to root for the Chiefs. I’ve rooted for them every other time they’ve been in the Super Bowl and I’m definitely NOT rooting for the other team. There is no other team in the NFL that I dislike more than the Eagles. Even though there are a few players that I simply can’t stand on the Chiefs, the Eagles orginization as a whole has made my life miserable for the last forever years. It’s no surprise that I will be rooting for and picking the Chiefs to win this game. I don’t care if I get the pick wrong, I mean I got both picks wrong 2 weeks ago… GO CHIEFS!
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
Thanks for the edit Eric!
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